Apparatus for making wood-an d-wi re fence



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M. F. PINK. APPARATUS FOR MAKING WOOD AND WIRE FENCE.

Patented May 7, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()EEIcE.

MILLARD F. FINK, .OF MIDDLETONVN, MARYLAND.

APPARATUS FOR MAKING WOOD-AND-WIRE FENCE.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,815, dated May '7, 1889.

Application filed March 23, 1889. Serial No. 304,442. (No model.)

- exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple form of apparatus for the manufacture of fencing composed of slats woven together by strands of wire.

The invention consists in the improved details of construction of the apparatus as a whole and in special parts of the apparatus, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a portion of a fence in course of manufacture with the apparatus shown in place. Fig. 2 is a detail View showing one of the improved parts detached, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view through the tension device.

In the drawings the fence is shown as being composed of slats woven together by strands of wire at three diiferent points; but it will be understood that slats may be held simply at top and bottom, or they may be secured at intermediate points, if desired. The wires by which the slats are to be woven together are secured in place at one end and the construction of the fence begun at that point, and the opposite ends of the wires are held in a suitable tension device, such as shown in the right of Fig. l and in the detail view of Fig. 3, this being of my invention also. It consists of a bar, a, having pairs of perforations b, there being a number of these pairs equal to the number of pairs of wires 0. Secured to this bar a by means of a clamping-screw, (Z, is another bar, e, which has beveled edges, and the wires of each pair pass around one upon one side of this bar and one upon the other side, crossing each other, as shown in Fig. 3, the one upon the left passing through the perforation on the right of the bar a, and the strand upon the right passing through the left-hand perforation of the said bar, and by the manipulation of the thumb-screw the bars are adjusted nearer to or farther from each other, so as to put any amount of tension upon the wire.

My improved weaving device consists of two parallel bars, A A, each having three laterally-extending arms, B B, the arms B being fastened to the bar A and the arms B to the bar A, and located, respectively, at the top, bottom, and center. The arms of one bar are arranged in pairs with the arms of the other bar, and the pairs are connected, as shown, by couplings G. Extending inwardly from each barA A, and arranged at intervals along each bar, according to the number of pairs of wires which are used in the construction of the fence,

are shuttle-arms D,which, as shown in Fig. 2, are constructed in two parts, each part having a slotted end, by means of which they may be threaded upon the wire-that is to say, the wire is placed in the slot of one part, as at f, and the adjustable part 9 is then brought into parallel position with the part f, so as to close the opening in the slot in, the part f, and thus prevent the wire from disengagement, while at the same time the shuttle-armsare easily engaged with the strand of the wire.

In order to provide for the holding and separation of each slat from its fellow, it is necessary to cross the wires of each pair after the insertion of a slat, and it is therefore necessary to move the bars A A toward and from each other to so cross the wire, and I secure this movement by a very simple construction of foot-levers, as shown at We. The lever 'i is pivoted to the barA, and is connected to the bar A by means of a strap, Z, which passes over a pulley, m, on the bar A, and thence to the bar A, and it will be seen that in the depression of the treadle 'i the bars A A will be moved toward each other, and by reason of the coupling-connection this movement will be a lifting movement describing the arc of a circle, which will thus cross the wires of each pair and confine the slat last inserted. The reverse movement is given by the lever k, which is connected by a strap, Z, passing 9 over a pulley, m, on the center arm, B, of the bar A, and thence to the point a; on the arm B of the barA, and after the movement of the lever 1' a fresh slat is inserted, and the operation of the lever 7; crosses the wire again, and

thus confines this second slat, and this operation is repeated until the fence is completed.

In the operation the weaving-frame is moved along the wires after the insertion of every slat.

Instead of operating the barsAA' by footlevers, I may provide handles. one extending from one side and connected to the bar A and the other extending from the other side and connected to the bar A, as shown at n in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination, parallel bars moving to ward and from each other, shuttle-arms projecting inwardly from each bar, couplingcon; nections for securing the bars together, and operating-treadles connected to the said bars for giving them moven'lent, substantially as described.

2. In combination, parallel bars A A, shut- 2o tle-arms extending from said bars inwardly, laterally-extending arms B, connected to said bars A, couplings connecting said arms, and means for operating the bars A to move them from and toward each other, substantially as described.

3. In combination with the described Weaving device, a tension device for the wires, consisting of a bar having perforations arranged in pairs and a second bar adjustably held to the first bar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MILLARD F. FINK.

XVitnesses:

VAN 15. SVVEARINGEN, THOMAS J. SHORT. 

